Assessing climate change-robustness of protected area management plans-The case of Germany.

ABSTRACT: Protected areas are arguably the most important instrument of biodiversity conservation. To keep them fit under climate change, their management needs to be adapted to address related direct and indirect changes. In our study we focus on the adaptation of conservation management planning, evaluating management plans of 60 protected areas throughout Germany with regard to their climate change-robustness. First, climate change-robust conservation management was defined using 11 principles and 44 criteria, which followed an approach similar to sustainability standards. We then evaluated the performance of individual management plans concerning the climate change-robustness framework. We found that climate change-robustness of protected areas hardly exceeded 50 percent of the potential perform

SUBMITTER: Geyer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628909 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature